The Wave Garden Site is Live

hmmm I think this is going to be geared towards the "corporate offsite" kinda place. Instead of taking your employees to Dave and Busters, you can go to the wave garden, enjoy their conference rooms, do your power meetings, do team building catch an employee as he/she falls backwards... and then do a little surfing. I would see more HR incidents in the future with warm water, but given you need a wetsuit it's minimized. :)

Perhaps, we can use one of the fly casting pools in GGP? Couple times in there and you'll be hooked. ;)

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That would be awesome frisky! :)

Watching the little tykes surf is pretty cute. One of those lil guys has pretty good form! They musta read King of Kooks kid's book already.

Funny to browse around and see Cowells prominently displayed on the site:

http://www.wave-garden.com/lang/en-us/product/why-a-surfspot

This could have some serious impact on board design. A whole lot easier to test designs against one another if the wave is always the same...

They need to turn it up to 11, I want to see some barrels.

max size 1.6 meters? That's sort of lame.

+1 for G.G. Park flycasting pools

Classic commercial style. Catchy happy tune, young people of all ages having fun, smiling, laughing in the benign golden light. Looks like heaven, throw in some cold carbonated cola and your all set.

Looked at the site, somebody is throwing some serious money at this. Could become very popular.

+2 for G.G. Park flycasting pools, some investor should look into this but, we're gonna need a left and a right.

This looks cool, but the damn website doesn't describe how it works. That always makes me suspicious.

What do you have to hide?

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I'm thinking they drag a long telephone pole like thing with a sort of a scoop behind it to redirect the disruption into a wave. But I'm no engineer that's for sure. Hate to wipe out and get clobbered by it though.

Can't be that. You can see a guy pushing one of the little kids into a wave. He just stands and watches as the wave pulls away from him...

SF would soon proudly claim title as the undisputed U.S. Surf City with ######hcoming addition of Stow Lake and Lake Merced to its long list of legendary surf breaks...

Here's the patent application if anyone is interested in how it's supposed to work:

patent 20100017951
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2010/0017951.html

so if you wipe-out (which the King never does) do you get run over by a big steel roller?

I'd say that's a fair trade-off. Just like the consequences of wiping out over a perfectly peeling coral reef.

A quick read of the patent describes it as being more of a non-rigid tube filled with either air or water (Fig.11). Basically a long balloon being pulled through the water at an angle (Fig. 12).